Extremes Quote by Kenneth Branagh

“We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.” quote by Kenneth Branagh — Download Open image

“We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.”

Kenneth Branagh

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Extremes Honest Kind Mad Madness Obsessed People Self Self obsessed Stupid Way

More by Kenneth Branagh

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual…

Kenneth Branagh

Image

I noted about Cate Blanchett was her very positive lack of concern for how she turns out in Cinderella. She is happy to be a villainess and very pleased to be encouraged as I did with her to reveal this backstory and feel as though this was very human, that this broken heart of hers, if you might regard it…

Kenneth Branagh

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a…

Kenneth Branagh

Image

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

Kenneth Branagh

Image

Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but…

Kenneth Branagh

Image

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

Kenneth Branagh

Image

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out…

Kenneth Branagh

Image

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

Kenneth Branagh

Image

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me.…

Kenneth Branagh

Image

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Kenneth Branagh

Image

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

Kenneth Branagh

Image

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether…

Kenneth Branagh

Image

Explore all 108 Kenneth Branagh quotes

More Extremes quotes

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be…

Pope Leo XIII

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in…

Abraham Lincoln

Image

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects,…

Carl Schmitt

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

Michel Foucault

Image

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

Lawrence Lessig

Image

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

Terry Pratchett

Image

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

Alexander Alekhine

Image

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme…

Stephen Jay Gould

Image

My childhood was extreme.

Tori Amos

Image

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that…

Chris Cleave

Image

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an…

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Image

I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to…

Kay Redfield Jamison

Image

Browse all 1,939 Extremes quotes

Extremes Quote by Kenneth Branagh

Related quotes

More by Kenneth Branagh

More Extremes quotes